Shake It Up Star Bella Thorne Is Ready To Show The World Who She Really Is!

With her first major movie role, a debut album, and her own fiction series in the works, the Shake It Up star is about to go from small-screen actress to bona fide superstar. Bella dishes all about finding the confidence to go after her dreams in the June/July issue of Seventeen, on newsstands May 20!

On Her Ambition

On Her Ambition

I get my ambition from my father. [Editor’s note: he passed away when Bella was 9.] There was no stopping him; it didn’t matter what anybody said. For me, I feel like it’s a cool way to bring him into my life because he did great things in his life, and I want to emulate that.”

On Body Image

On Body Image

"Girls are shamed for their bodies and made to believe that they're not supposed to show them or love them. They're made to believe that they aren't perfect, that they need to ‘work on it,’ that they need to see themselves differently—and I think it's freaking ridiculous. It gets on my nerves because boys can do whatever; it's like we're living in the 1800s again. It drives me crazy."